To DVD ot not To DVD DVD ot PVR

Then make the PVR DVD combo with a faster processor.

Its stupid because the DVD player format should have been designed to playback MPEG files as data. DivX players can already do that with MPEG-4 so why not MPEG-2.

Its too expensive, and too slow. 25 GB in 1 hour is ridiculous. Its cheaper to buy a stand alone portable HDD and back up to 300 GB on that instead in the same hour. What's more the data on the HDD can easily be altered whereas that on the BD disc will not.

Here you go. 300 GB external drive for only £90. That's cheaper than an internal SATA drive of the same capacity.

Whereas a 50 GB BD-RE disc will cost £45. THEY MUST BE OUT OF THEIR RAVING MINDS !

You obviously cannot understand a simple question. Who wants a DVD recorder with two DVD decks ?

Replace it with an Ethernet port. After it took me an hour to burn one and a half hours of programming onto DVD compared to only 15 minutes when I burned it as data I have decided that DVD-Video is a waste of time. In future I will get a PVR and copy the programmes I want to keep on my computer as data, and if I want to watch them I will transfer them back or wait for a PVR that as well as having an Ethernet port can also play back video files off a network drive. After all a video iPod can already do most of that already.

Yes that seems to be mostly true for the people running these consumer electronics companies. I pity then.

It cost £700 when it originally came out over 20 years ago so its probably more than that.

So was Vinyl and where's that now. Nobody ever used it as a recording format.